Audience reviews
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1stDecame4Danime
Premise: What if rumors of the supernatural are real? What if they can all be explained by science? What if there's a global conspiracy being enacted by an evil global shadow government organization? El Psy Kongroo. This series follows an eclectic cast of 9(+) characters who soon find themselves embroiled in occultic murder mystery conspiracies beyond their understanding as they seek to uncover the secrets behind these deaths for their own personal reasons. But it seems those who get too close to the truth are the most likely to die.
Luckily it doesn't take itself too seriously, nor fall into low-effort cliches of the ol' anime tropety-trope-trope slop.
The characters have a lot of wacky banter and fun: from friendly raygun shock-treatment by breast girl to the voices in my head, there's…
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I am so happy that I did not listen to the thoughts of others, and just went into this show blindly!
All I see is others saying that this is rushed, and the pacing was off yada yada yada. THEY'RE WRONG. It is so important to go into this with an open mind, and to just accept what you see. Just because the story is told in an unorthodox way that doesn't stive to be like other animes, does not mean it is told incorrectly. The story is told in a unique way, wherein they answer one question while simultaneously creating 5 other questions. I personally love this since it kept me guessing the whole way through. The storytelling was fast but that was the uniqueness of its own style. Nothing was rushed, everything was explained with no plot holes (maybe save for one, honestly). The story was incr…
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A modern masterpiece. Where as shows such as Hunter x Hunter and Soul Eater failed to show the severity of it's themes, Occultic;Nine succeed at doing the impossible of tackling major themes with no issue in the slightest.
Story:10
The story was so gripping and immersive at every turn. At most points it felt like i was really in the universe of Occultic;Nine as the main protagonist Yuuta Gamon. I won't spoil it for you here however just expect life altering development in your mediocre life.
Art:10
I am a connoisseur of art and I must say the visuals of this anime a groundbreaking to say the least. i have covered my wall in some of the frames of the anime and to be honest it is the best decision i have ever made in my life.
Sound:10
The soundtrack, don't even get me started. If i wa…
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At the start of each anime season I pick a few of the anime to watch weekly. Unfortunately, while Occultic;Nine was able to keep me interested since episode one, it wasn't good enough to keep watching weekly and I fell behind a great deal. Having recently finished it, I'm glad that I took the time to return and watch it. It's not something to be heralded as one of the greatest anime and personally I didn't even feel as if it's something I'll be recommending to other people, but I did thoroughly enjoy parts of it. There were a lot of things I had a problem with, but at the very least, the parts I enjoyed were enough to keep me going until I finished it.
To get it out of the way at the beginning, I harbor a personal bias towards the art style that Occultic;Nine and other similar anime use.…
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Occultic;Nine is like a new disease. At first, you'll be confused and unsure what to make of it because it's so strange. Then, you're given placebos, and it seems normality has returned to a certain degree. When the psychological veil is gone and the huge elephant is revealed to you once again, you treat the many symptoms hoping that it'll be cured over time. Unfortunately the symptoms simply return and in greater intensity until you decided to put your foot down to find the vaccine.
And thank goodness we don't have to do that because we have a miracle drug that will fix everything! *cough* deus ex machina *cough*
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The premise is really good and captivating, but pacing was way too fast. Every episode messes with your mind, making you scream obscenities as if it'll help you mak…
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Occultic nine...i asked my self why this anime had this name,but till the last episodes you don't get the meaning behind that name,is it a bad thing? No of course not.
However Occultic nine didn't impress me that much and now i will tell you why.
The story is centered around events that have as first topic the occult and paranormal.
Our protagonist Gamon Yuuta tries to make profit out of those events by running a blog on the internet,where oftenly he makes fun of those facts.
He appears as a classic nerd and aside of his partner Ryouka Narusawa,he doesn't really have friends,he spends most of the time inside a cafè called Blue Moon,ran by a strange man called Kouhei Izumi.
But one day Yuuta will get caught inside a nasty situation,and from that point the whole story will start.
That's p…
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Light novels have been a popular adaptation these days, there are dozens of anime that have been adapted from this. It has been one of the best solutions to decrease the over-dominance of manga in the past. It's a good strategy, though. But I should say that "adapting literature into an anime is not an easy work".
Why? Because the director has to adjust a hundred pages of story into a fit 24 minutes per episode in a limited one-cour (or two-cour if they lucky to have that time), with the same feeling & content of the literature itself. Many anime failed to bring this to the screen. And what I thought about Occultic; Nine is similar as I stated above. Occultic; Nine has failed to wrap both story and characters in its adaptation.
The story somewhat brings us into certain cases of death w…
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Honestly, for all the people saying this show is a nightmare, you're clearly wrong. It isn't a nightmare. Unless you can't read fast enough. In that case,
don't watch this show and watch something else.
Okay, if you cannot catch onto details quickly, this show will SHOVE ITS ASS UP YOUR FACE. If you don't want to be extremely confused, watch it with a friend or don't watch it at all(or go on reddit).
The show has some problems with pacing. It's paced quickly, which is a problem to some people. However, the pacing eventually slows down so that you can actually pay attention.
(By the way, for that one reviewer that says that "the first episode adapted 200 pages, so it's terrible, you're dearly wrong. First of all, the first light novel did NOTHING except establish characters.Who wants 2…
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"Let me be a hero!" - Gamon (Episode 12)
This is one of those anime where there are going to be alot of haters and alot of praisers I think. There are going to be people that will say... "This anime is too confusing, I have no idea what is happening, my brain is killing me." and people who are like... "This anime is so smart with it's story, it totally makes sense... omg, give me more plz!" To me, this anime does start out very very confusing, then I was like... DAMN!!! Let's get to the pros and cons of things.
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Story - 7/10
Cons:
Oh What a Rush! - Ok, the main problem is in it's first 3 episodes in this anime and it's how rushed and fast everything is going. It was very hard to tell what was happening because 1... The dialogue was going so fast that I had to pause alot of times, tak…
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Occultic Nine is another dark anime involving mind bending story and so to say, mind bending timeline. You need to pay really big attention with the timeline, especially when the DATE appearing on the screen (3rd of March is the main date where everything is start happening).
Ok, back again to the topic. Honestly, the concept of the story is really great, mystery keep happening the entire series and I always have this feeling of want to know what gonna happen on the next episode with STRONG curiosity.
The only hard time I have finishing the series is catching up with the SCREENWRITING. Yes, the screenwriting...if you don't know what is screenwriting, in short it is the dialogue. I am not a native Japanese and I DON'T like watching dubbed anime so I have quite hard time following the barr…
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Intro
Every year you wound encounter an anime thats a little different to what you would usually find in a given season. In this season this will be occultic nine. Adapted from the light novel series of the same name
So then lets get started
Occultic Nine has a rather unique story in that it combines the traditional evil organisation/corporation's evil plot with the occultic which in this case deals with the use of spirits. The story combines the elements of these two type of story types with elements of mystery into one storyline that is full of twists and unexpected revelations. Indeed while the story can be difficult to understand at first and indeed this is one of the complaints that i have seen other viewers have expressed the story does become clearer as anime goes on. The story…
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'Occultic;Nine proves that Steins;Gate wasn't just luck, but that there's a genius writer behind this...'
The story of Occultic;Nine is just excellent. The writer has seriously been thinking about pretty acceptable theories (and using ones that already exist). This makes the paranormal activities in this serie more realistic, just like he did with the time travel theories in Steins;Gate. It is really funny how some small jokes refer to certain moments in Steins;Gate. But don't get me wrong, because this serie on it's self isreally good.
I love the way things are being made mysterious and every strange thing you see has a meaning. It keeps your attention and lets you puzzle with the characters.
Story: 10
Yes, the characters. I must say that the characters are a really important thing but…
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Occultic;Nine is the newest entry in the semicolon universe among other titles such as the beloved Steins;Gate, the not-so-beloved Chaos;Head, and the no-one’s-quite-sure-how-to-feel-about-it Robotics;Notes. For most people browsing sites like anichart and putting upcoming seasonal titles into their proverbial shopping cart, any show that has a semicolon in its name immediately gets thrown in the basket thanks to its storied legacy. As of late however, it’s easy to lose faith since the majority of the semicolon titles have come with mixed reception. Fall 2016 has rolled around, and the first semicolon entry since 2012 unveiled itself as Occultic;Nine. 2016 was, in many people’s eyes, an overall weak year for non-sequel anime, so many saw Occultic;Nine as the last bastion of defense of 2016…
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SPOILERS AHEAD!
Well, well... Here we are at the end of the Fall season; hyped animes, some satisfying, some disappointing ones keep ending one by one. From the creator of Steins;Gate, director of Your Lie in April and well-known studio A-1 Pictures, Occultic;Nine can be placed in all these categories. I am really confused and have really messy opinions about this anime so I hope I can explain them properly.
Genres: Mystery, Sci-Fi, Supernatural, Thriller
Pros:
-Unique style of pacing
-Really interesting story -Mysterious ambience
-Somehow loveable characters
-Music and art
-Good use of science materials
Cons:
-Extremely fast talkings and pacing
-Not enough screentime and developments for characters
-Plotholes
Story: 8/10
Occultic Nine's story is like a puzzle. First, you have puzz…
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I just read something saying that the world from Occultic; Nine is the same world that Steins Gate used as well as Chaos Head. I haven't watched any of those two, but it's nice to know that a series I love is based in the same world as two other anime on my to watch list.
Now for specifics on Occultic; Nine. I'd have to say that the story was interesting, although it was a bit rushed. The dialog was very fast and you ca tell that the scenes went by quickly. Even with the fast pacing, I still really like the idea the show had; having nine people become ghosts and be all specifically linked to a certain blog was quite interesting due to all the weird supernatural phenomenon that occurred.
I'll admit that characters are really all that developed. Each of them did fit their role though and…
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Occultic;Nine might as well be LA's most indecisive anime for Fall 2016 and with good reason...LA had no idea what was going on...no actually that's not quite right, LA "struggled" to fit the pieces together. Mind you, it took LA 10 episodes before LA FINALLY knew where Occultic;Nine would be good or bad and when the plot fragments finally blended together into a cohesive narrative.
For what Occultic;Nine has for "science" as this is a part of the ; Science Adventure visual novel series, what the science themes are "Nikola Tesla's experiments", nonetheless what it also has are Japanese horror stories, fortune telling, precog, a clandestine organization, seeing the "devil", detective work through pschyometry, mass suicides...you can already tell what the problem is right?...THERE'S JUST TO…
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First off, I'd just like to say that for me at least the art was one of the best parts of this show. It's a really interesting style and there are a lot of interesting shots.
The characters were also well done and developed, though the way they designed Ryouka's character is rather... questionable. The rest of the characters all look great though.
The story is by far the most interesting part of the show. It's a mystery with a bit of a thriller-aspect to it (like the SciAdv series by the same author), and I personally found it very engaging. I would say that the pacing is slightly off in some parts; the last episode in particular had way too much going on in it.
For me though, the greatest issue I had with this entire show was the speed of the dialogue. I'm sure if I was fluent in Japan…
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This was a really fast-paced story and it ended as it began. So the viewers might find it difficult to follow up due to pace but not story.
There were some "good minus meh" theoretical grounds on physics in this show. Those positive scientific claims can be discussed in forum or Reddit. Let's begin.
**Story**
It was fair (6). The show did not succeed to amaze me while revealing true identities of some characters.
**Art** Very good (8). Yes, the show was "meh", but it had a unique style. Drawings on faces, thematic color palette etc. It was unique (apart from a pair of huge bewbs).
**Sound**
Not a mess, and not unique either (6). I began to think some guy is up and creating OSTs for modern anime series. They all sound like some particular one person. I will not remember any of OSTs f…
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As you can probably guess by the semicolon in the title, Occultic;Nine is another entry from the Science Adventure franchise, except this time it's based on a two-volume light novel series written by that other semicolon writer not named Naotaka Hayashi. Not that it really matters too much because the basic plot is pretty much the same as all the other semicolon entries: a bunch of professional adults go apeshit for no reason other than they're bastards and try to take over the world through some specific scientific area that's been weaponized, and end up involving a bunch of eccentric young teenagers or college students who just so happen to have an interest in said field, as well as wield the only (nerdy) means that are capable of defeating said organization. And since this is a semicolo…
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TLDR: Skip to final paragraph.
Water’s bottom, many people, drowning, giant cow-tits…transmission died.
Clearing out the elephant in the room. Nikola Tesla never had an illegitimate child as he was a virgin who devoted his love towards a peculiar pidgin. What if I told you he did father a child, and this child capable of being a poltergeist, has managed to possess someone all this time. Occultic;Nine is a show that explores the occult and probes into the spirit realm. The series scrutinises paranormal activities and tries to rationalise it in a scientific manner, hence tries to inform us that anything can be disproven my science. Occultic;Nine had one of the worst opening episodes that I’ve experienced in a long time. The pacing was frenetic in the sense that it was uncontrolled and har…
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